larger church. It was not easy for early Jewish Christians to let go of their ways of reading their Hebrew Bible texts that required circumcision and kosher observance of all of God’s people. In order for those early Christians to discern this deeper pattern in Scripture, they had to rekindle their imaginations to read and put together a range of biblical texts in a different way, discerning a different and deeper set of interconnections, analogies, and resonances in the Bible as a whole. In this